Chen Wenjun, Director of the Foreign News Bureau of the Central Propaganda Department: Ladies and gentlemen, dear Chinese and foreign journalists, good afternoon! Welcome to attend the press conference held by the News Center of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party o

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Director of the Foreign News Bureau of the Central Propaganda Department:

Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon, friends from Chinese and foreign journalists! Welcome to attend the press conference held by the News Center of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

Today we invite three party representatives to communicate with you on the theme of "Unswervingly governing the party with comprehensive and strict discipline, and deepening the new great project of party building in the new era. These three party representatives are Comrade Xiao Pei, deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and deputy director of the National Supervisory Commission, Comrade Xu Qifang, deputy director of the Central Organization Department, and Comrade Tian Peiyan, deputy director of the Central Policy Research Office.

, please first ask Comrade Xiao Pei to introduce it.

Xiao Pei, deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and deputy director of the National Supervisory Commission:

Ladies and gentlemen, friends, hello everyone! Yesterday (October 16), the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which has attracted worldwide attention, was grandly opened. Listening to General Secretary Xi Jinping’s report and understanding the strategic arrangements for Party building will remind you of the extraordinary journey of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party in the new era. From the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, I truly feel the strong inspiration of faith and the strong spiritual power.

Recalling ten years ago, the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China had just concluded. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out deeply when meeting with Chinese and foreign journalists that the people’s yearning for a better life is our goal. Under the new circumstances, there are many problems that need to be solved urgently in our party, such as corruption, separation from the masses, formalism, bureaucracy, etc. The whole party must be alert and must be strong in the blacksmith.

Over the past decade, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has incorporated comprehensive and strict governance of the Party into its strategic layout, and has carried out an unprecedented anti-corruption struggle with the mission of "offending thousands of people and living up to 1.4 billion". In the new era, comprehensive and strict governance of the Party has been sharpened for ten years, fundamentally reversing the looseness and softness of the Party, preventing the Party from deteriorating and fading due to the spread of corruption, the "four winds" and the rampant privileges, preventing the Party from being infiltrated and interfering by interest groups and powerful groups, and winning the historical initiative of maintaining flesh-and-blood ties with the people and sincerely supporting the people, and winning the historical initiative of the whole Party to be highly united and unified, at the forefront of the times, and leading the people to achieve great rejuvenation.

Comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is a distinctive theme of Party building in the new era. Our Party puts political construction first, and regards upholding the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee as the highest political principle, strictly observe political life within the Party, strengthen political supervision, and ensure that the Party’s theories, lines, principles, policies, and decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee are implemented and effective. Our Party has solved the problem from the formulation and implementation of the eight central regulations, and has established a new trend with the spirit of nailing down the nails, which has stopped the unhealthy trends that have not been stopped for a long time, and has corrected the stubborn problems that have not been eliminated for many years, and has laid the political foundation for the party's long-term rule.

Our Party comprehensively strengthens discipline construction, strictly enforces political discipline and political rules, adheres to the tone of strictness, truly manages, dares to be strict, and has a long-term strictness. Our Party punishes corruption with a zero tolerance attitude, promotes the integration of not daring to be corrupt, cannot be corrupt, and does not want to be corrupt, resolutely investigates and deals with corruption cases intertwined with political and economic issues, and resolutely punishes corruption around the people. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the national discipline inspection and supervision agencies have filed more than 4.648 million cases, including 4,553 central-level cadres under investigation, and more than 25,000 department-level cadres and more than 182,000 county-level cadres. The fight against corruption has achieved an overwhelming victory and has been consolidated in full.

After the revolutionary forging of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in the new era, the Communist Party of China, which has gone through a century of struggle, has found the second answer to the historical cycle of governance, chaos, rise and fall.

The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has made strategic arrangements for unswervingly governing the Party with strict discipline and deepening the new great project of Party building in the new era. We will more deeply understand the decisive significance of " two establishing ", strengthen the " four consciousnesses ", firm up the " four self-confidence ", and achieve " two safeguarding ", consciously use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to unite the heart and soul, adhere to and strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, improve the Party's self-revolution system, adhere to the strict tone to strengthen the rectification of work style and discipline, resolutely win the protracted battle against corruption, better lead the social revolution with the Party's self-revolution, and provide a strong guarantee for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country. Thank you everyone.

Chen Wenjun:

Thank you Comrade Xiao Pei. Please give an introduction to Comrade Xu Qifang.

Xu Qifang, Deputy Director of the Central Organization Department:

Dear friends from journalists, ladies and gentlemen, I am very happy to meet with my media friends. Yesterday, the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China opened successfully, and we listened to the conference report delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping. This report is distinctive in theme, profound in thought, rich in connotation, profound in depth, magnificent momentum and inspiring people to make progress. It is a political declaration and action guide that inspires the whole Party and people of all ethnic groups in the country to strive to write a new chapter in the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country. Below, I will give a brief introduction to the implementation of the Party’s organizational line in the new era.

In July 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping made a complete statement of the Party’s organizational line for the first time at the National Organization Work Conference and clarified its scientific connotation, pointing out the direction for strengthening the Party’s organizational construction in the new era and providing scientific guidance. The Central Organization Department and various regions and departments regard the study and implementation of the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech as an important political task, and strives to promote the implementation of the Party’s organizational line in the new era.

First, adhere to and strengthen the Party’s overall leadership. Putting the political construction of the Party first, the "four consciousnesses" of the whole Party are constantly strengthening, the "four self-confidences" are becoming increasingly firm, the "two safeguards" are becoming more conscious, and the role of the Party's core leadership is significantly enhanced.

The second is to insist on using the Party’s innovative theory to unite the heart and forge the soul. Taking the study and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the primary political task, we will carry out the theme education of " Don't Forget the Original Aspiration and Keep the Mission in Mind" and the Party's History Study and Education, and further deepen and practical the Party's innovative theories.

The third is to improve the organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and has strong execution. Establish a clear orientation of focusing on grassroots units, and in the battles and tests such as poverty alleviation, rural revitalization, and epidemic prevention and control, the role of grassroots party organizations as fighting fortresses and the role of party members as pioneers and models is fully demonstrated.

Fourth, build a team of high-quality and professional cadres. Fully implement the new era good cadre standards and the requirements of loyalty, cleanliness and responsibility, establish and improve five major systems of quality training, knowledge of affairs, selection and appointment, strict management, and positive incentives, promote the reform of classified management of civil servants, and forge a cadre team that is politically strong, adapts to the requirements of the new era, and has the ability to lead modernization.

5: Deeply implement the strategy of building a country with talents in the new era . Hold a central talent work conference to accelerate the construction of an important world talent center and innovation highland. Deepen the reform of the system and mechanism of talent development in , implement major talent projects, and promote innovative breakthroughs in talent work in the new era.

Sixth, adhere to the system and govern the party according to regulations. Continuously deepen the reform of the Party’s construction system, and further improve the level of scientific, institutionalized and standardized Party building.

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China puts forward clear requirements for party building and organizational work. We must study and understand deeply, conscientiously implement it, and strive to do a good job in the following work.

First, continue to promote the innovative theoretical arming of the Party in the new era, promote party organizations at all levels and the vast number of party members and cadres to deeply study Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments", and resolutely implement the "two safeguards".

The second is to coordinate the study and concentrated training of the spirit of the 20th National Congress, and to promote party members and cadres to unify their thoughts and actions with the spirit of the 20th National Congress.Third, always be in mind the "big thing of the country", persist in selecting cadres, gathering talents, and focusing on the grassroots, promote high-quality development of the Party's organizational work in the new era, and provide a strong organizational guarantee for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country and the comprehensive promotion of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. I'll introduce these first, thank you!

Chen Wenjun:

Thank you Comrade Xu Qifang. Please give me an introduction to Comrade Tian Peiyan.

Deputy Director of the Central Policy Research Office Tian Peiyan:

Hello, friends from reporters! Here, I will briefly introduce the theoretical innovation achievements of Party building in the new era.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has put forward new requirements for the Party’s leadership and Party building in accordance with the development of the situation and tasks. He has focused on answering the fundamental question of what kind of Marxist party to build for a long time and how to build a Marxist party to build for a long time, deeply explored the laws of the Communist Party’s governance and the laws of the Party’s own construction, put forward a series of pioneering new concepts, new ideas and new strategies for governing the Party with pioneering significance, achieved major theoretical achievements, and made important original contributions to enriching and developing the Marxist theory of building a Party.

These theoretical achievements are very rich in content. In summary, they mainly include: putting forward the general requirements for Party building in the new era of , clarifying the principles, main lines, focus points, and overall layout of Party building in the new era; putting forward the strategic policy of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, emphasizing that the foundation of comprehensive and strict governance in the comprehensive, the key lies in strictness, and the key lies in governance. We must truly manage and strictly, dare to manage and strictly, and long-term strictness; putting forward self-revolution is the second answer to the party breaking out of the historical cycle of governance, chaos, rise and fall, and self-purification must be enhanced. Self-improvement, self-innovation, self-improvement ability;

proposes socialism with Chinese characteristics ’s most essential feature is the leadership of the Communist Party of China, socialist system with Chinese characteristics ’s greatest advantage is the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and the Communist Party of China is the highest political leadership force; proposes that the political construction of the party is the fundamental construction of the party, which determines the direction and effect of party building; proposes that the great spirit of building a party is the spiritual source of the Communist Party of China; proposes that ideals and beliefs are the spiritual pillar and political soul of the Communists, It is the spiritual "calcium" of the Communists;

proposes the party's organizational line in the new era, clarifies the standards for good cadres, emphasizes the improvement of the organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and has strong execution, and enhances the political and organizational functions of grassroots party organizations; proposes that the party's style is the image of the party, and is a barometer for observing the relationship between the party, the masses, cadres and the people's hearts, and emphasizes that style construction is always on the road, and we must always work hard and resolutely rectify formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance; proposes that the fight against corruption is a battle that cannot be afforded and must not be lost. The major political struggles must be promoted in an integrated manner, not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, and efforts must be made in one's way.

proposes that public power belongs to public, and must also be public, and it is necessary to improve the party and state supervision system and strengthen the constraints and supervision of power; it proposes that governing the party in a system and governing the party in accordance with regulations is the fundamental solution to comprehensively and strictly governing the party, and it is necessary to build a systematic, scientific, standardized, and effective system; it is proposed that party building is the greatest political achievement, and the responsibility of comprehensively and strictly governing the party must be implemented, etc.

These theoretical achievements provide fundamental guidance for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. They fully demonstrate the powerful power of truth and practical power in guiding the new great project of Party building in the new era, promote the comprehensive strengthening of Party leadership, significantly improve the Party's political leadership, ideological leadership, mass organization and social appeal, and fundamentally reverse the loose and soft situation of Party management and Party governance. The Party is stronger and more powerful in revolutionary forging, providing a strong political guarantee for the historic achievements and historic changes in the cause of the Party and the country. Thanks.

Chen Wenjun:

Thank you Comrade Tian Peiyan. Now we welcome all reporters to ask questions. Please inform your news organization before asking questions.

Qiushi Magazine Reporter:

On the occasion of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the communiqué of the Seventh Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China once again emphasized that the whole party must deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments".How should we understand the decisive significance of "two establishments"?

Tian Peiyan:

I will answer this question. The "two establishments" are major political achievements made by our party in the new era and are the decisive factor in the historic achievements and historic changes in the cause of the Party and the country.

Having a strong leadership core and scientific theoretical guidance is an important symbol of a mature Marxist party and a successful code for the Communist Party of China to create a century of glory and achieve great achievements for thousands of years. Historical materialism science reveals the people's dominant position in creating history, and at the same time fully affirms the important role of outstanding figures in historical development. It believes that every era must have its own outstanding figures, because outstanding figures can correctly judge the general trend of the development of the times, understand the common aspirations of hundreds of millions of people, put forward historical tasks, clarify future goals, have lofty ideal pursuits, superb political wisdom, strong historical responsibility, and be good at organizing and relying on the people to turn common aspirations into reality. General Secretary Xi Jinping is an outstanding figure in our great era and a people's leader whom everyone hopes for.

Similarly, having the guidance of Marxist scientific theory is the fundamental reason for our party to strengthen its beliefs and grasp historical initiatives. Only by treating science with a scientific attitude, pursuing truth with the spirit of truth, constantly advancing the sinicization and modernization of Marxism, constantly answering China's questions, the world's questions, the people's questions, and the times, making correct answers that conform to China's reality and the requirements of the times, and obtaining a scientific understanding that conforms to objective laws, can the Party correctly observe the times, grasp the times, and lead the times, and always be invincible. Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is the latest theoretical achievement of our Party to correctly answer major questions raised by the times and practice. It is contemporary Chinese Marxism, 21st century Marxism, the essence of the times of Chinese culture and Chinese spirit, and has achieved a new leap in the sinicization and modernization of Marxism.

Facts are better than words. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, facing the severe and complex domestic and international situation, the enormous risks and challenges that follow, and the arduous and heavy tasks of reform, development and stability, the reason why our party has been able to overcome many problems that have not been solved for a long time, accomplish many major and important matters that are related to the long-term, promote the historic achievements and historic changes in the cause of the Party and the country, and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical process. The fundamental reason is that General Secretary Xi Jinping is at the helm and guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.

The decisive significance of "two establishments" has been reflected in the great changes in the new era in the past ten years, and has been imprinted on the hearts of the whole party, the whole army and the people of all ethnic groups in the country, and will also be fully demonstrated in the new brilliant chapter of the development of the party and the country in the new era and new journey. Thanks.

Beijing Youth Daily Reporter:

The General Office of the Central Committee has issued the newly revised "Regulations on Promoting the Advancement and Downing of Leading Cadres" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations"). We have noticed that the "Regulations" clearly state that the key point of promoting the Advance and Downing of Leading Cadres is to solve the problem of "downing". What are the main situations in which cadres can "downing"? In addition, what specific measures are taken in the process of promoting the ability of leading cadres to go up and down?

Xu Qifang:

Thank you, this reporter friend. On September 8 this year, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee issued the newly revised "Regulations on Promoting the Advancement of Leading Cadres and Downs", which is a major measure to deepen comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and govern officials. It is of great significance to further improve the selection and employment mechanism for personnel selection and employment, and to inspire the majority of cadres to advance into a new journey and make contributions to the new era.

The "Regulations" clarify seven channels for accountability, party discipline and administrative sanctions, organizational handling, resignation, term of office, retirement and organizational adjustments to cadres who are not suitable for serving as current positions. Focusing on adjusting cadres who are not suitable for serving as current positions, 15 situations are listed in terms of political performance, ideals and beliefs, spirit of struggle, concepts of political achievements, implementation of organizational discipline, responsibility, ability and quality, work style, and moral character.

The "Regulations" further optimized the relevant verification and identification procedures for cadres who were not suitable for serving as current positions, and improved the relevant adjustment arrangement methods.Key measures include the following 6 aspects.

First, we use annual assessment as an important basis for promoting the ability of leading cadres to go up and down, and have an in-depth understanding of the political performance, ability level, work performance, style status, reputation of the masses, etc. of cadres.

The second is to insist on inspecting and identifying cadres on the front line of major tasks and major struggles, and distinguishing between superiors and inferiority in practical tests.

The third is to strengthen comprehensive analysis and judgment, make good use of the results of cadre assessment inspection, inspection, audit, statistics, personal matter reports, democratic evaluation, petitions, etc., and dynamically grasp the actual performance of cadres.

Fourth, strictly implement responsibilities, include the implementation of the "Regulations" in the content of the Party Committee (Party Group) to fulfill the main responsibility of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, " one report and two evaluations ", inspections, special inspections on personnel selection and employment, etc., and include them in the content of the annual assessment report of the Party Committee (Party Group) secretary.

Fifth, establish a documentary reporting system, requiring the superiors to report the relevant situation of the previous year to the previous year to promote the normalization of the ability to go up and down.

Sixth, strengthen public opinion propaganda and promote the formation of a social environment and public opinion atmosphere that can be promoted and downward. Thanks.

CCTV reporter:

My problem is that General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China that we have carried out an unprecedented anti-corruption struggle. How do we view the achievements made in the fight against corruption over the past decade?

Xiao Pei:

Corruption is the most likely issue to subvert the regime, and anti-corruption is the most thorough self-revolution. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a major judgment: in the new era, we have carried out an unprecedented anti-corruption struggle, achieved an overwhelming victory and comprehensive consolidation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, among the 553 central-level cadres who have been investigated and investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, including 49 members of the 18th Central Committee and alternate members of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the 18th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and 12 members of the 19th Central Committee and alternate members of the Central Committee, and 6 members of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Discipline inspection and supervision agencies across the country have filed a total of 207,000 "top leaders" at all levels. Our Party relies on its institutional advantages and the rule of law advantages, and has written a new historical chapter in the fight against corruption with its firm will of "evil bamboos should be cut ten thousand poles". The fight against corruption has been sharpened for ten years and never stopped. Our Party insists on fighting corruption and eliminating corruption, and fulfilling the promise proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China that "no matter whoever is, no matter how high his position is, as long as he violates the Party's discipline and national laws, he will be severely investigated and severely punished, which is by no means empty talk."

First, our party has strengthened the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over anti-corruption work. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission established after the reform have achieved the reconstruction of the anti-corruption leadership system, the organizational structure, the work force, the responsibility system, and the discipline and law enforcement mechanism.

Second, the spread of corruption has been resolutely curbed. Since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the discipline inspection and supervision agencies have investigated and dealt with more than 74,000 people suspected of corruption and bribery crimes, of which 48% of the first corruption occurred before the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and 11% of the first corruption occurred after the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. This shows that the problem of not restraining and not stopping has been effectively curbed, and reducing the stock and curbing the increase has been effectively and effective. Under the influence of high-pressure deterrence and policy, more than 80,000 people have voluntarily surrendered to the discipline inspection and supervision organs since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. At the same time, the number of petition reports has declined for four consecutive years, down 29.9% in 2021 compared with 2018.

Third, severely rectify the "fly greed" around the masses. At the Second Plenary Session of the 18th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection held after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping demanded that "tigers" and "flies" be fought together. The Party and the people are cheered up. In the ten years of the new era, our party insists on putting people first, and when the "tigers" appear, they must beat them, and when the "flies" fly around, they must also shoot them, and resolutely correct all kinds of problems that ignore the interests of the masses. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the national discipline inspection and supervision agencies have investigated and dealt with more than 650,000 corruption and work style issues in the fields of people's livelihood such as education, medical care, pension and social security, law enforcement and justice, allowing the people to personally feel that comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is around them, and rectifying the work style, discipline and anti-corruption is around them. The satisfaction of the people has significantly improved.The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has cooperated with the National Bureau of Statistics to conduct public opinion surveys for ten consecutive years. This year's survey results show that 97.4% of the people believe that comprehensive and strict governance of the party is effective, which is an increase of 22.4% over 2012. 99% of the people believe that the Party Central Committee’s measures to rectify the work style, discipline and anti-corruption reflect the spirit of our party’s thorough self-revolution.

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is always on the road, and the Party’s self-revolution is always on the road. As long as there is soil and conditions for the corruption problem, the fight against corruption cannot stop for a moment, and the charge must always be blown. Anti-corruption can only advance and not retreat. We must resolutely win the protracted battle against the anti-corruption struggle. We must promote the integration of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt. We must improve the system and mechanism to prevent the breeding and spread of corruption, so that severe punishment, standardization of power, education, guidance, coordination and linkage can be achieved, and more institutional results and greater governance effectiveness. Thank you everyone.

Batong News Agency reporter:

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that as the world's largest Marxist ruling party, the Communist Party of China must always win the support of the people and consolidate its long-term ruling status, and must always maintain the clarity and firmness to solve the unique problems of the major party. How should we understand this?

Tian Peiyan:

Let me answer this question. This is a major conclusion made by General Secretary Xi Jinping on the historical position, the situation and tasks, and the development and changes of the Party’s situation. It reflects the strategic confidence, strategic clarity and strategic awareness of our Party in managing and governing the Party in the new era and new journey.

Our party has more than 96 million party members and more than 4.9 million grassroots party organizations. It is the largest Marxist ruling party in the world. To manage and cure such a big party, we must strictly demand ourselves with high standards of advanced nature and purity of the Marxist party. Our Party is well aware that maintaining the advanced nature and purity of the Party and maintaining the advanced nature and purity of Party members will not be natural, will not be achieved overnight, nor will it be done once and for all, but will be an eternal issue that will accompany the Party’s governance throughout the Party and the lifelong life of Party members. To answer this eternal question well, to ensure that the whole Party is united in thought, actions and steps are consistent, and to ensure that the Party is always full of vitality and always at the forefront of the times requires continuous hard work and persistent tenacity and determination. There is no doubt that this is by no means an easy task.

After comprehensively governing the Party with strict discipline since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have solved many prominent problems within the Party, and the Party has become stronger and stronger in revolutionary forging. At the same time, our party is also clearly aware that some deep-seated problems within the party have not been fundamentally solved, and some old problems may always rebound. If you relax a little, you will rekindle, and new problems are still emerging. The Party faces the ruling test, the reform and opening up test, the market economy test, and the external environment test will exist for a long time, and the dangers of mental slackness, insufficient ability, alienation from the masses, and negative corruption will exist for a long time. It is not easy to solve various problems within the Party in a timely manner, to withstand the "four major tests of " and prevent the "four dangers", and to ensure that the Party does not deteriorate, change color, or taste.

is based on a clear understanding of these unique problems faced by our party. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized in his report at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China that comprehensive and strict governance of the party is always on the road, and the party’s self-revolution is always on the road. There must be no slack off and fatigue and war-weariness. We must persist in promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the party, deepening the new great project of Party building in the new era, and leading the social revolution with the party’s self-revolution, so that our party can stick to its original aspiration and mission and always become the strong leadership core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Thanks.

Phoenix TV Reporter:

We saw General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping talked in the report of the 20th National Congress that the Communist Party of China has found the second answer to self-revolution, which is a historical cycle of governance, chaos, rise and fall, and also emphasized the improvement of the party's self-revolution system.I would like to ask why I emphasize this? How to improve such a system of institutional norms?

Tian Peiyan:

This is an important task proposed by our party to unswervingly govern the Party with strict discipline and deepen the new great project of Party building in the new era.

The courage to self-revolution is the most distinctive character and unique advantage of our party, and it is the mystery of our party's endless success after a century of prosperity and hardships. To inherit, maintain and develop these distinctive character and unique advantages, it is inseparable from the role of the system. Because the system is more fundamental, overall, stable and long-term. Governing the Party institution and governing the Party in accordance with regulations is the fundamental solution for our Party to comprehensively and strictly govern the Party, and is the basic way to manage and govern the Party. It plays an irreplaceable and important role in maintaining the unity and unity of the Party, supervising and restricting power, regulating the words and deeds of Party members, and strictly enforcing political life within the Party.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our party has attached great importance to the construction of party regulations and systems. Among the nearly 4,000 effective party regulations, more than 70% have been newly formulated and revised in the past decade. On July 1, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping announced at the meeting to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China that our party has formed a relatively complete system of party regulations. This achievement in system construction is hard-won and is an important milestone in the history of party building, especially in the history of party regulations and systems, and marks the comprehensive realization of our party's governance and governance. Our Party deepens the reform of the discipline inspection system and the national supervision system of , formulates and revises the Regulations on Disciplinary Punishment and the Regulations on Intra-Party Supervision, promotes the issuance of the Supervision Law, and establishes the National Supervisory Commission to achieve full coverage of supervision of public officials who exercise public power. The Party and the state supervision system has been continuously improved, providing important guarantees for the fair use of power, the law, the civil rights, and the integrity of the use of power.

The Party’s self-revolution is always on the road, and the Party’s self-revolution system must also keep pace with the times and reform and innovate. We must comply with the new requirements of strengthening the Party’s overall leadership and deepening comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, and timely fill the system gaps; continuously improve the quality of the formulation of Party regulations, and ensure that all systems can be established, feasible and well managed; strengthen filing and review and cleanup, and maintain the unity and authority of Party regulations and systems; effectively improve the execution of Party regulations, so that iron rules can be exerted and bans can be powerful. Further improve the supervision system of the Party’s unified leadership, comprehensive coverage, authoritative and efficient, take intra-party supervision as the leader, promote the integration and coordination of various types of supervision, promote the socialist supervision system with Chinese characteristics to become more mature and standardized, and better transform it into governance efficiency. Thanks.

China Discipline Inspection and Supervision News, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the website of the National Supervisory Commission:

In recent years, systems and regulations on the management and supervision of leading cadres have been issued one after another, from cleaning up "naked officials" and strengthening supervision and inspection of personnel selection and employment, to reports on personal matters of leading cadres, and standardizing the business and business behavior of leading cadres' spouses, children and their spouses. Can you introduce it in detail?

Xu Qifang:

Let me answer your question. General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized that ", the key is to strictly govern officials" and "the key to strict governance of the party is to strictly manage cadres." Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the organization department has followed the firm pace of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, demanding cadres with strict standards, managing cadres with strict measures, and restraining cadres with strict discipline, and has launched a "combination punch" of strictly managing and supervising cadres.

first, continuously improve the reporting system for personal matters of leading cadres with Chinese characteristics . The reporting system for personal matters of leading cadres will be included in the overall design of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. As a weapon for strict governance of the Party and officials, a comprehensive random inspection and verification will be carried out, and the random inspection ratio will be increased from 3%-5% per year to 10%. All candidates for the new leadership team will be checked, and all central-level cadres will be checked before the 20th National Congress will be held.

Second, standardize the business and business behavior of spouses, children and their spouses of leading cadres. Since 2015, this work has been gradually launched nationwide, and the spouses, children and their spouses of more than 4,700 leading cadres have been regulated nationwide.After the centralized standardization was completed, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee issued the "Regulations on the Management of Business and Business of the Spouses, Children and Their Spouses of Leading Cadres", establishing and improving a normalized and long-term mechanism. Practice shows that this work is of great significance to standardizing the operation of power and promoting leading cadres to be honest in politics, use power with integrity, cultivate themselves and manage their families with integrity, and win the support of the majority of cadres and the masses.

Third, deepen supervision and inspection and inspection and rectification of personnel selection and employment. Since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in conjunction with the central inspection, special inspections on personnel selection and employment have been carried out in 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, , Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and more than 200 central units. Every year, the selection and employment of personnel in provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities and central units are evaluated. In 2021, the rate of cadres and the masses considering that the selection and employment of personnel in local and units is "good" increased by 23 percentage points compared with 2013, showing a continuous upward trend.

Fourth, launch a special "combination punch" to effectively solve the stubborn problems of cadre selection and appointment and management and supervision. Taking special rectification as a breakthrough point, a number of "hard" problems have been effectively solved. For example, special rectification of the "three exceeds and two disorders" problem is carried out, namely, rectification of cadres who have exceeded the number of positions, cadres who have been promoted beyond the organization specifications, institutions that have exceeded the approval authority, cadres who have been raised without authorization, cadres who have been raised without authorization, and job titles have been set without authorization. For example, special governance of the problem of "naked officials" will be carried out, institutional regulations such as the management measures for the position of "naked officials" and clarify the promotion restrictions and job entry requirements. For example, special governance of leading cadres’ licenses for private overseas travel (broad) will be carried out, and violations will be dealt with seriously. For example, special rectification will be carried out on the "revolving door" and "escape resignation" of government and business units in central management and the illegal arrangement of close relatives to work in this system.

In the next step, we will focus on learning and implementing the spirit of the 20 National Congress, unswervingly implement all arrangements for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, and promote the in-depth development of comprehensive and strict management and supervision of cadres. Thanks.

People's Daily Reporter:

Comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in the new era begins by formulating and implementing the eight central regulations. What achievements and experiences have been achieved in style construction? How to adhere to a strict tone to strengthen the rectification of work style and discipline?

Xiao Pei:

Adhering to a strict tone to strengthen the rectification of work style and discipline is a strategic deployment made by the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Strictness is the political gene of the Communist Party of China. Yesterday, the General Secretary pointed out in his report that we must always maintain the clarity and firmness of solving the unique problems of the major party. This requires that the party governing the party always maintain a strict tone. Looking back on December 4, 2012, the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China had just concluded, and the Political Bureau of the Central Committee formulated eight regulations on improving work style and maintaining close ties with the masses. At this meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and the Second Plenary Session of the 18th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection held soon, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that problems in work style are definitely not trivial matters. If they are allowed to develop, they will be like an invisible wall that separates our party from the people. We must start with leading cadres and first of all, the central leadership. The guiding ideology is to be strict, work towards strict standards, and take serious action.

Ten years ago, the General Secretary put forward strict requirements, starting with senior cadres and central leaders. In the new era, comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is solved by the Party Central Committee’s formulation and implementation of the eight central regulations. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, more than 761,000 violations of the spirit of the Central Eight Regulations have been investigated and dealt with. General Secretary Xi Jinping once vividly pointed out that if one of the eight regulations is implemented, the whole process of party building will be alive. The eight regulations have become landmark measures to change the political ecology and social outlook. We have watched the mouths of some leading cadres and won the hearts of countless people.

First, the Party Central Committee sets an example. Adhere to the highest standards in practicing the original aspiration and mission, and adhere to the strictest requirements in implementing the eight central regulations and their implementation rules. The Political Bureau of the Central Committee holds democratic life meetings every year to check the implementation of the eight central regulations, lead by example, start from the "key minority", start from the strictness of senior cadres, and follow the rules of the words. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a total of 265 central-level cadres who violated the spirit of the Central Eight Regulations have been investigated and dealt with.

The second is to leave marks on the stone and marks on the iron.Starting with the problem of strictly prohibiting the delivery of mooncakes and holiday gifts for public funds and eating, drinking and traveling for public funds, ten years have been done, one problem and one problem is corrected, one problem is broken through, one node is closely guarded, and one node is sticking to it year after year. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission has reported and investigated and punished violations of the spirit of the Central Eight Regulations every month, and reported and exposed typical cases by name.

The third is to concentrate on rectifying the problems of formalism and bureaucracy. Resolutely correct the problems of implementing the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, expressing high points, shouting slogans loudly, failing to implement actions, and even going against the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, and correct the problems of mountain and sea of ​​texts, excessive inspections, and excessive traces. Since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, discipline inspection and supervision agencies across the country have investigated and dealt with more than 282,000 formalism and bureaucracy.

Fourth, insist on doing things for the people and relying on them. "Flies" are crowded, and their harm is like tigers. Grassroots cadres are held accountable for their problems of taking things out of the way, being cold and hard, and being irresponsible. Since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, more than 347,000 cases of corruption, embezzlement, favoritism, and plucking of hairs by geese. At the same time, broaden the channels for mass supervision, open one-click access to the "Four Evils" to shoot and report, and weave a tight mass supervision network.

Fifth, correct the "four winds" and create new styles. Improve the normalized and long-term working mechanism to guide the social atmosphere toward the upward and good. The eight regulations have become the "golden business card" of Communists in the new era.

The Party Central Committee has always emphasized that the eight central regulations are not five or ten years of regulations, but long-term effective iron rules and hard rulings. The Twenty National Congress reports require perseverance in implementing the spirit of the Central Eight Regulations and continuing to deepen the rectification of the "Four Evils". Prevent rebound, stealth and mutation, and war-weariness, bring good traditions into a new journey, and carry forward good work style in the new era. Thanks.

Pengpai News reporter:

insists on bribery and bribery together to investigate it. It is an important deployment made by the 19th and 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and it has also received widespread attention from the society. What progress has been made in this work recently?

Xiao Pei:

Corruption not only destroys the political ecology, but also destroys the economic development environment. Anti-corruption is conducive to purifying the political ecology and can also purify the economic development environment. Both the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made arrangements, requiring them to investigate bribery and bribery together.

"hunting" by bribers and bribers' power-money transactions are important reasons why corruption is still happening. Only by cutting off the chain of interests that are willing to be "hunting" can we eradicate the soil for breeding of corruption. The key to the acceptance of bribes by leading cadres is that the party spirit is deteriorated, the original intention is discolored, and the power is distorted. We must adhere to the principle of promoting the integration of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, build a friendly and clean government-business relationship, and make it the norm to investigate bribery and bribery together.

bribery and bribery are both one side. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the national discipline inspection and supervision agencies have investigated and dealt with more than 63,000 bribery personnel, and the national procuratorates have investigated and dealt with more than 36,000 bribery personnel. To promote the investigation of bribery and bribery together, we must first clarify the focus of punishing bribery. We have drawn five key points: First, those who pay bribes multiple times, huge amounts of bribes, and those who pay bribes to multiple people; Second, those who pay bribes by party members and cadres and state staff; Third, those who pay bribes in important national work, key projects, and major projects; Fourth, those who pay bribes in the fields of organization and personnel, law enforcement and justice, disaster relief, education and medical care; Fifth, those who implement major commercial bribes.

Second, we must strictly investigate and deal with it in accordance with the law. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, together with the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and other relevant departments, formulated the "Opinions on Further Promoting the Investigation of Acceptance and Bribery at the same time". The Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China and the Implementation Regulations of the Supervision Law stipulate the punishment methods for bribers and the means to deal with illegal bribery proceeds.

The third is to explore the implementation of the management system for bribers’ list. Coordinate the use of discipline, law, administrative, economic and other means, and make the bribers pay the due price by restricting corporate qualifications, market access, etc.

We will follow the deployment of the Twenty National Congress to further improve the accuracy and effectiveness of cracking down on bribery, not only to find out the bribery problems, but also to recover the gains from bribery, and at the same time protect the legal operations of enterprises, protect the legitimate rights and interests of the persons involved in the case and related enterprises, and achieve the organic unity of political, legal and social effects.

Learning Times reporter:

In recent years, in urgent, difficult and dangerous tasks such as poverty alleviation, rural revitalization, epidemic prevention and control, earthquake relief, flood control and other urgent, difficult and dangerous tasks, grassroots party organizations in various fields have actively played the role of a fighting fortress, organized party members to charge forward, shouting "I am a party member, I will go first! I am a party member, follow me!" How can party members stand up when facing urgent, difficult and dangerous tasks?

Xu Qifang:

Thank you for your question. The power of the Party comes from the organization. The grassroots party organizations are the "nerve endings" of the party's body and the foundation of all the party's work and combat effectiveness.

A branch is a fortress, and a party member is a flag. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has unswervingly promoted the extension of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party to the grassroots level, insisted on improving organizational strength as the focus, highlighted political functions, promoted the comprehensive progress and comprehensive improvement of grassroots party organizations in various fields, and gave full play to the role of grassroots party organizations as a fighting fortress and the role of party members as pioneers and models. The vast majority of party members are not afraid of hardships, bravely shouldering heavy responsibilities, and charging forward at critical moments and in completing major tasks, fully demonstrating the pioneer image of Communist Party members in the new era.

For example, we have deepened the efforts to promote poverty alleviation by party building. We have selected 255,000 village-based work teams, more than 3 million first secretaries and village cadres to sink to the grassroots level in rural areas, leading the people out of poverty and becoming rich, winning the battle against poverty, and have been widely praised by the people.

We regard rural revitalization as a big stage for cultivating and training party members and cadres, select and strengthen the leaders of village party organizations, continue to select first secretaries and work teams to regularly rectify weak and scattered village party organizations, fully mobilize and inspire the majority of party members to actively participate in rural revitalization, and gather the tremendous power of rural revitalization.

Under the unified leadership and command of the Party Central Committee, party organizations at all levels effectively organize party members, cadres and the masses to participate in epidemic prevention and control. The vast number of party members and cadres charged at the forefront and fought at the forefront, building a solid line of defense for life and becoming the main force in the fight against the epidemic. "I am a party member, I will go first! I am a party member, let me do it!" It has become the strongest voice in the front line of epidemic prevention and control. Under the leadership of party members, a touching situation was formed where the whole nation mobilized, the whole nation fought the epidemic, and jointly protected the home.

In the earthquake relief and flood relief, party organizations at all levels have formed "party member commandos", established "party member responsibility dikes", and carried out "party member contact households", and overcame difficulties, made selfless contributions, practiced their original mission with practical actions, and protected the lives and property of the people.

Practice has proved that no matter in normal times, critical moments, and in critical moments, grassroots party organizations and party members have always been the most reliable and strongest backbone of the general public. This is the political advantages, organizational advantages and the advantages of our party’s close ties with the masses. These advantages come from the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, leading the way and setting an example, driving the whole party to always maintain unified thoughts, firm will, and coordinated actions, uniting and leading the broad masses of party members, cadres and the masses to advance into a new journey and make contributions to the new era; from party organizations at all levels and the vast number of party members consciously study and understand Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, strengthen ideals and beliefs, temper party spirit, and maintain the political character of Communist Party members; from party organizations at all levels strictly manage the daily education and management of party members, not only "form shape" but also "form soul", and guide the majority of party members to see it in normal times, stand out at critical moments, and be willing to sacrifice at critical moments. Thanks!

Chen Wenjun:

The last question.

Guangming Daily reporter:

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that the leadership of the Party is comprehensive, systematic and holistic, and must be implemented in a comprehensive, systematic and holistic manner. What are the new connotations and requirements of this term?

Tian Peiyan:

I will answer this question. This is a major political conclusion put forward by our party in a profound summary of the party’s historical experience and in accordance with the new requirements of the development of the times.

The Party’s leadership is comprehensive, systematic and holistic, and its content includes political leadership, ideological leadership, organizational leadership, major work leadership, etc., which is reflected not only in strategic planning and top-level design, but also in tactical guidance and construction implementation; the scope covers the entire process and various fields of the development of the Party and the country, and is reflected in economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction, ecological civilization construction, national defense and military, national reunification, diplomatic work, party building, etc. Whether it is the content contained or the areas covered, the Party’s leadership is an inseparable, organically connected, and internally unified whole. Which field, aspect, or link is missing and weakened, it will weaken the Party’s leadership and damage the cause of the Party and the country. Because of this, the Party’s leadership must be implemented comprehensively, systematically and holisticly.

Upholding the leadership of the Party, we must improve the Party’s leadership system that takes overall charge and coordinates all parties, improve the implementation mechanism of the Party Central Committee’s major decisions and deployments, and ensure that the whole Party maintains a high degree of unity with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core in its political stance, political direction, political principles, and political path, and ensure the unity and unity of the Party.

Strengthen the political responsibility of implementing the Party’s leadership, give full play to the leadership role of Party committees (party groups) at all levels, the demonstration and leading role of leading cadres, the role of grassroots party organizations as a fighting fortress and the vanguard and exemplary role of the majority of Party members, and form a powerful joint force to implement the Party’s leadership in an all-round, multi-level and three-dimensional manner. Adhere to governing according to law, democratic governance, and scientific governance, implement democratic centralism, innovate and improve leadership methods, be good at making the Party’s propositions become the will of the state through legal procedures, be good at making candidates recommended by the Party organization become leaders of the state power organs through legal procedures, be good at implementing the Party’s leadership over the state and society through the state power organs, and promote the Party’s leadership to be more standardized, orderly and more effective. Thanks.

Chen Wenjun:

Today's press conference ends here. Thank you to the three party representatives and all the journalists and friends for their participation. Thanks.

Editor in charge: Zhang Wen